Anna Suk-fong Lok MD, FRCP

Anna Suk-Fong Lok, M.D., is director of clinical hepatology and assistant dean for clinical research at the University of Michigan Medical School. She also is the Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor of Hepatology and Internal Medicine and Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology in the Department of Internal Medicine. In her role as assistant dean, Dr. Lok is responsible for leading, championing, and implementing recommendations from the Research Board of Directors to transform the clinical trials enterprise of the academic medical center. She is responsible for the overall leadership and direction, management, and oversight of the Clinical Trials Support Units and the Clinical Research Unit, training of clinical investigators, and facilitation and support of clinical research. 

Dr. Lok obtained her medical degree from the University of Hong Kong and her hepatology training under the late Dame Sheila Sherlock at the Royal Free Hospital in London, UK. She was on the faculty at the University of Hong Kong until she moved to the United States in 1992. Her research focuses on the natural history and treatment of hepatitis B and C, and the prevention of liver cancer. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, federal and private foundations, and various pharmaceutical companies. She has published more than 600 papers on viral hepatitis and liver diseases and is the co-author of five editions of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Association Guidelines on Hepatitis B. She was one of the top 1% most cited scientists in the world for the decade 2002-12. 

Lok has trained more than 60 fellows and junior faculty from all over the world, some of whom have risen to the ranks of full professors and directors of liver programs in their home country. She received a Distinguished Mentor Award from the Michigan Institute of Clinical and Health Research in 2012, an Inspirational Physician Award from the American Medical Association in 2014, and a Distinguished Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterological Association in 2022. She was inducted into the Clinical Excellence Society in the Department of Internal Medicine in 2013. Dr. Lok has received many awards throughout her career.